News & Events

The Electrical Engineering Department newly constructed dark room and reverberation chamber facility was opened by Professor, K.K.C.K Perera, former VC of University of Moratuwa on 29^th July 2020. Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Professor N. K. Wickramarachchi, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor S. Kumarawadu, Professor A. Wijayapala, Dr. R. Wijesiriwardana and Dr. V. Logeeshan also attended the event. The lab was donated and constructed by Sanken PVT Ltd for the industrial contribution by Dr. R. Wijesiriwardana.

The team (Team SiRi) represented by the University of Moratuwa became the champions at the 2nd Regional Association of Energy and Power Universities (RAEP) Energy and Electricity Market Business Decision Simulation Competition 2020 organized by the Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP), Shanghai, China. The competition was held online this year. The completion had several rounds. Opening ceremony of the competition was held on 30^th September 2020. 

The paper submitted by the final year project group “Smart Device for DC Side Fault Detection and Prediction for Solar PV Systems” of Electrical Engineering Department won the “Eng. Chandrasena Award” for the Best Paper at the IESL Young Member Technical Conference 2020. The project group comprises with P.W. Dewapura, M.M.S.D. Ranasingha, B.D.S. Premanath and K.M. Ramanayake and the group is supervised by Dr. Asanka Rodrigo.

The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) awards ‘ENG. E. W. Karunaratna Award’ for the best undergraduate project in Electrical Engineering across engineering faculties in Sri Lanka. This year, the project “Develop a Series Arc Fault Detector to Minimize the Risk of Domestic Electrical Fires”, done by a group of students in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, received the award. The group members were, S. P. Somathilaka, N. T. Senarathna, H. E. Hewapathirana and W. M. K. S. Sumathipala. The project was supervised by Prof. J. R.

 Dr. AGBP Jayasekara has been promoted to the post of professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (on merit) with effective from 08.01.2019.

The 24^th Annual General Meeting of the Electrical Engineering Society (EESoc) of University of Moratuwa was held on 11th March 2020 at the Electrical Engineering seminar room. 

Prof. Sisil Kumarawadu has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies (ACCIMT) from February 2020. Prof. Kumarawadu is a Senior Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering.

International Conference on Electrical Engineering Research and Practice (iCEERP-2019) organized by the Western Sydney University was held in Sydney, Australia from 24^th to 28^th November 2019. The best paper award was presented for the paper on “Technical and non-technical losses in single phase Energy Metering”. This paper was presented by Mr. Nilush Jayawardane, an MSc student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and was co-authored by Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya and Prof. Ranjit Perera. 

Tharushi Kalinga, an MSc Research Student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended the Second Nepal Winter School in AI held from 10^th to 20^th December 2019 at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science (GCES) in Pokhara, Nepal.

Department Industry Consultative Board (DICB) Meeting of the Department of Electrical Engineering was successfully held on Thursday, 27^th February 2020 at the Engineering Faculty Board room, University of Moratuwa. The key matters for the discussion were industry relevance of the undergraduate program and the employability of Electrical Engineering graduates with the proposed changes to the curriculum. Very strong industry participation was noted and suggestions and feedback provided were very important in further developing the academic programs.